Doctors Try Genetically Modified Poliovirus As Experimental Brain Cancer Treatment

(By Rob Stein for NPR)

A genetically modified poliovirus may help some patients fight a deadly form of brain cancer, researchers report.

The experimental treatment seems to have extended survival in a small group of patients with glioblastoma who faced a grim prognosis because standard treatments had failed, Duke University researchers say.

“I’ve been doing this for 50 years and I’ve never seen results like this,” says Dr. Darell Bigner, the director emeritus of the The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at the Duke Cancer Institute, who is helping develop the treatment. Continue reading article here…

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